Japan's Shifting Status in the World and the Development of Japan's Medical Insurance Systems

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Yoneyuki Sugita

Japan's Shifting Status in the World and the Development of Japan's Medical Insurance Systems

Yoneyuki Sugita

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Springer Verlag, Singapore
21 January 2019

Medical insurance; History of medicine

This book explains the origins and early developments of Japanese medical insurance systems from the 1920s to the 1950s. It closely examines the changes in the systems and the symbiotic relationship between Japan’s status in international relations and the development of domestic medical insurance systems. While previous studies have regarded the origins and development of Japanese medical insurance systems as merely a domestic issue and pay little attention to the role or effects of international affairs, this book closely examines the changes in these systems by looking at the enactment of the Health Insurance Law in 1922, the establishment of the National Health Insurance in 1938, the epoch-making reforms of 1942, numerous plans in the early Allied occupation period, and Japan’s social security plan in 1950. In doing so, it shows that there was indeed a symbiotic relationship between Japan’s status in international relations and the changing nature of domestic medical insurance systems. It also reveals that Japan’s status in international relations set the framework within which interested groups, primarily the government, made rational choices. This book is a valuable resource for academics, researchers and students who have an interest in the Japanese medical insurance systems.

By: Yoneyuki Sugita
Imprint: Springer Verlag, Singapore
Country of Publication: Singapore
Edition: 2019 ed.
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 155mm,
Weight: 565g
ISBN: 9789811316593
ISBN 10: 9811316597
Pages: 247
Publication Date: 21 January 2019
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Chapter 1: The 1922 Japanese Health Insurance Law - Toward a Corporatist Framework.- Chapter 2: The 1922 Japanese Health Insurance Law - Toward a Corporatist Framework #2: Medical Association.- Chapter 3: Toward National Mobilization - The Establishment of National Health Insurance.- Chapter 4: Japan’s Epoch-Making Healthcare Reforms of 1942 - Toward Universal Health Coverage.- Chapter 5: ""Isolation” from the International Community and State of “Let a Hundred Schools of Thought Contend” under the Allied Occupation.- Chapter 6: Dodge Line.- Chapter 7: Reexamination of the “Recommendation with Respect to a Social Security System” of 1950.- Conclusion.

Yoneyuki Sugita is professor of history at Osaka University, Japan. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1999. He started his career as a diplomatic historian and has since been trying to combine diplomatic history and international relations with health policies in Japan. He has been conducting research on the development of Japanese health insurance programs from the 1920s through the 1950s for the last two decades using various primary documents available in Japanese. Based on his unique research approach, he has published many works in this area of research.

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